Re: potential release candidate

[Andrew McIntyre <mc...@gmail.com>]

On 10/23/05, Kathey Marsden <km...@sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> The doc did not
> have a top level index, just the directories for the individual
> manuals.  Is that correct?

That is correct, but it would be a good idea to have one. A JIRA entry
for creating a top-level and/or docs-level index.html should be filed.

The only problem I found with the contents is that tools/release was
not included in the -src distribution, but that's a minor nit and not
a showstopper, in my opinion. I didn't scan every single directory in
the -src distribution, but the high-level view looks good.

> Andrew, please check it out and give it your official release manager
> thumbs up or thumbs down to proceed with testing.

Thumbs up.

> 1)   I signed the release manually, see below for details, so please
> double check that  it is  signed properly.

Looks good.

> Step 8)
>          - I could not modify the packaging.properties as instructed,
> because  it would cause a svn modified svn number in the release.

I'll move packaging.properties to a different filename
(packaging.tmpl, i suppose, to indicate its a template) and add a note
about copying the file to packaging.properties and modifying it to
contain proper values for your system.

> Step 9)
>       - It might be good to add  a note  to check your classpath for
> osgi.jar for OSGI support and make sure jsr169compile.classpath is set
> for J2ME support.

Yes, this is important. Thanks for thinking of that.

<snip problems with signing>

That's unfortunate the the signing bit was pretty much a wash, since
it worked for me. I'll include an example for signing the whole thing
with a (non-Ant) script.

>     -   Is there anything else  that happens after the md5 target
> besides signing the release?  Since I aborted the release target I want
> to make sure I didn't miss anything.

Nope.

> Step 12)
>  I think the last digit should be bumped after the distribution is
> posted based our discussion earlier that the last digit should be bumped
> after any snapshot or release candidate is made.

Sure, I'll move this up the list.

andrew